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The New York Times
Sept. 27, 1959
Page A1
907 words

Ceylon Appoints Anti-red Premier
Education Chief Succeeds Bandaranaike -- Nation Is Calm After Murder

By Paul Grimes

Article begins:
COLOMBO, Ceylon, Sept. 26 A stanch anti-Communist was sworn in today as Prime Minister of Ceylon to succeed S. W. R. D. Bandaranaike, who died of wounds inflicted by an assassin yesterday.


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